Who was Australian Impressionist painter Iso Rae? Born in the age of ‘Marvellous Melbourne’ during the heady years of the Victorian gold rush, she was dubbed one of the “best and brightest” students of the National Gallery of Victoria’s Art School. But she remains one of the lesser-known artists of this era. The NGV’s attempting to change this with its current exhibition, She-Oak and Sunlight: Australian Impressionism, which shows until August 22.<\/p>\n
The survey show includes more than 250 artworks from painters who loom large in Australian art history \u2014 such as Arthur Streeton and Tom Roberts \u2014 as well as those whose backstories, like Rae’s, are only just being written into the canon. Join She-Oak curator and art historian Anne Gray, and the University of Adelaide’s Professor Catherine Speck to rediscover Rae and understand why she was left out of the history books.<\/p>\n
Few artists work in such an unvarnished way with the organic \u2014 the fruits of the natural world \u2014 as the Colombian-born Australian artist Maria Fernanda Cardoso. Her unconventional but diverse 40-year artistic practice explores the strangeness and miracles of the natural world, which continues in her forthcoming exhibition, Gumnuts and Sandstone. Showing at Sydney’s Sullivan + Strumpf from May 20, the exhibition zeroes in on the geometry of the gumnut, a piece of Australian flora which Cardoso calls a ‘ready-made’ piece of art.<\/p>\n
Duration: 54min 8sec
\nBroadcast: Wed 19 May 2021, 10:05am<\/p>\n
Presenter
\nDaniel Browning
\nProducer
\nRosa Ellen
\nExecutive Producer
\nRhiannon Brown<\/p>\n
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